(430 ILCS 100/11) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7711)
Sec. 11.
MSDS.
(a) The owner or operator of any facility
which is required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet
for a hazardous chemical under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 and regulations promulgated under that Act (15 U.S.C. 651 et seq.)
shall, in accordance with the threshold levels for reporting established
by regulations promulgated under the Federal Act, submit a material safety
data sheet for each such chemical, or a list
of such chemicals as described in subsection (b), to each of the following:
(1) the appropriate local emergency planning committee;
(2) the State Emergency Response Commission; and
(3) the fire department with jurisdiction over the facility.
(b) The list of chemicals referred to in subsection (a) shall include
all of the following:
(1) A list of the hazardous chemicals for which a material safety data
sheet is required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and
regulations promulgated under that Act, grouped in categories of health and
physical hazards as set forth under such Act and regulations promulgated
under such Act, or in such other categories as the Administrator may prescribe.
(2) The chemical name or the common name of each such chemical as
provided on the material safety data sheet.
(3) Any hazardous component of each such chemical as provided on the
material safety data sheet.
(c) An owner or operator may meet the requirements of this Section with
respect to a hazardous chemical which is a mixture by doing one of the following:
(1) Submitting a material safety data sheet for, or identifying on a
list, each element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous
chemical. If more than one mixture has the same element or compound, only
one material safety data sheet, or one listing, of the element or compound
is necessary; or
(2) Submitting a material safety data sheet for, or identifying on a
list, the mixture itself.
(d) Beginning 90 days after the effective date of this Act, it shall be
a violation of this Section for the owner or operator of a facility subject
to the requirements
of this Section to fail to submit an MSDS form as
required by Section 311(d) of the Federal Act, or within 3 months of the
date the owner or
operator is required to prepare or have available a MSDS for the chemical
under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations
promulgated under that Act.
(e) Within 3 months following discovery by an owner or operator of
significant new information concerning an aspect of a hazardous chemical
for which a material safety data sheet was previously submitted to the
local emergency planning committee under subsection (a), a revised sheet
shall be provided to such person.
(Source: P.A. 86-449.)
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